Between Hollywood and Europe: a cultural critic in New York. Why France liked our films (1942) -- Hollywood's terror films (1946) -- Jean Vigo (1947) -- The revolt against rationality (1947) -- Jewish culture (1947) -- Filming the subconscious (1948) -- Psychiatry for everything and everybody (1948) -- Those movies with a message (1948) -- National types as Hollywood presents them (1949) -- The mirror up to nature (1949) -- Preston Sturges, or laughter betrayed (1950) -- Art today (1961) -- About the state of the humanities -- A statement on the humanistic approach -- Talk with Teddie (1960) -- A critic at large I: film reviews. An American experiment (1941) -- Dumbo (1941) -- Film notes from Hollywood (1941) -- A few American films (1941) -- William Wyler's new Bette Davis film (1941) -- Flaherty, the land (1942) -- For whom the bell tolls (1943) -- Pais? (1948) -- The decent German (1949) -- The eternal Jew (1956) -- A few notes on The connection (1961) -- A critic at large II: book reviews. In Eisenstein's workshop (1943) -- The Russian director (1949) -- The movie colony (1942) -- A lady of valor (1947) -- The Teutonic mind (1948) -- Consciousness, free and spontaneous (1948) -- Indologian holiday (1948) -- Portrait in film (1948) -- Total teaching -- Pictorial deluge (1950) -- Movie mirror (1950) -- Reflexion faite (1952) -- Toward a theory of film. Stage vs. screen acting (1950) -- The photographic approach (1951) -- Silent film comedy (1951) -- The found story and the episode (1956) -- Letter to film 56 (1956) -- Afterword: Kracauer, the magical nominalist / Martin Jay.